The Progreso Post
Squad22 Jan 2035
Nicolás Fernández breaks a bone — 21 days out
Brutal, unambiguous and, for all the horror of the moment, usually less career-shaped than the ligament everybody fears more. 21 days, a clean timeline, and a return date somebody can actually plan around.
Match22 Jan 2035
Progreso are top
68 points and nobody above them. The word is not being said around the ground yet, and it is being thought in every seat.
Market22 Jan 2035
Only the photograph left for Alejandro Diaz
Fee agreed, terms agreed, medical booked. Alejandro Diaz will be somebody else’s player by the weekend, and around Progreso the goodbyes have quietly begun.
Squad22 Jan 2035
Words exchanged at Progreso
Emiliano Álvarez and a teammate said things this week that will take longer than a week to unsay. It was not about football, and both of them play on Saturday.
Squad22 Jan 2035
Diego Toma falls out with a teammate over standards
The oldest argument in any dressing room and the only one that is genuinely about football: one man thinks another is not putting enough in. It is also the row a manager privately does not mind having happened.
Market22 Jan 2035
One of our own: Federico Perez joins the Progreso first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Federico Perez is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market22 Jan 2035
One of our own: Cristian Ramirez joins the Progreso first team
Clubs spend fortunes looking for players and occasionally find one down the corridor. Cristian Ramirez is that, and the reception he gets on his first appearance will be different in kind from the one any signing receives.
Market22 Jan 2035
Progreso promote Ivan Castro from within
The academy exists for exactly this morning. Ivan Castro has come through every age group the club runs and has now been handed a senior number, and the people who coached him at twelve will be the proudest in the building.
The dugout22 Jan 2035
Matteo Copelotti knocks on the manager's door
“It had gone on long enough. I would rather have it out than leave it sitting there.” Ten minutes behind a closed door at Progreso, and both men came out saying it was fine.
In brief
- The dugout The manager makes an example of Patricio Núñez
- The dugout Gonzalo Silva has become a man the manager trusts
- Squad Alejandro Diaz has had enough of the bench